A method for the preparation of platinum complexes

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a platinum-organosiloxane complex which comprises (I) reacting (a) a platinous halide having an average crystal size of less than 250 nm (2500 Angstroms) and (b) an organosiloxane having from 2 to 4 silicon-bonded organic groups having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and having terminal olefinic unsaturation, the remaining silicon-bonded organic substituents being selected from alkyl groups having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and phenyl groups, wherein said reaction is carried out in the presence of a polar organic liquid which is at least a partial solvent for platinous halide, and (II) neutralizing the reaction mixture of (I). The complexes of the instant invention are useful as catalysts for hydrosilylation reactions.

Description: This invention relates to a process for the production of complexes of platinum and organosiloxanes and also to the use of said complexes. It is well known in the art that organosilicon compounds having silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms can be reacted with organic or organosilicon compounds having ethylenic unsaturation in the presence of a platinum compound as catalyst. The use of chloroplatinic acid as such a catalyst has been disclosed in U.S. Patent 2,823,218. U.S. Patent 3,419,593 describes that the compatibility of chloroplatinic acid in organosilicon reaction mixtures can be improved by reacting chloroplatinic acid with an organosilicon compound, preferably an organosiloxane, having silicon-bonded unsaturated groups. A method for preparing platinum complexes of unsaturated siloxanes which are useful as hydrosilylation catalysts is taught in U.S. Patent 3,775,452. Therein, an unsaturated organosilicon material is mixed with a platinum halide, typically chloro-platinic acid or sodium or potassium chloroplatinate and the resulting mixture is then treated with a base to effect the removal of inorganic halogen. These prior art methods, however, require the presence of water, a large excess of vinylsiloxane or very long reaction times. The use of a large excess of vinylsiloxane represents a significant drawback to these methods inasmuch as some loss of this relatively expensive reactant occurs as a result of cleavage of the vinyl groups and any remaining excess has to be recovered from the reaction mixture. Further, it has been discovered that the presence of water contributes to the loss of vinyl groups from the siloxane reactant and increases the need for an excess of the vinylsiloxane. It was suggested in U.S. Patent 3,775,452 (Col. 7, line 40) that the complex can be recovered in admixture with the excess vinylsiloxane and employed as such. However, the presence of the vinylsiloxane can reduce the activity of the platinum as a catalyst. Also, such an impure form of the complex may not be satisfactory for certain applications. We have found that by employing specific platinum compounds, namely platinous halides, complexes of platinum and organosiloxanes can be obtained by a method which does not require the presence of large excesses of organosiloxane or of water. It was also suggested in U.S. Patent 3,474,123 that complexes of platinous chloride and unsaturated organosiloxanes could be prepared by direct reaction, as in the case of organic complexes of platinum. However, the yields obtained therein are very low and all of the examples in the patent illustrate an alternative method which involves an additional step of first forming an organic complex. U.S. Patent 5,175,325 shows a method for preparing a platinum-organosiloxane complex which comprises reacting a platinous halide with an organosiloxane in which there are present from 2 to 4 silicon-bonded organic groups having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and terminal olefinic unsaturation, the remaining silicon-bonded organic substituents being selected from alkyl groups having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and phenyl groups, said reaction being carried out in the presence of a polar organic liquid which is at least a partial solvent for the platinous halide. However, nowhere is it disclosed that the crystal size of the platinous halide has any effect on the reaction rate of the method of the shown invention. The present invention introduces a method for preparing a platinum-organosiloxane complex which comprises (I) reacting (a) a platinous halide having an average crystal size of less than 250 nm (2500 Angstroms) and (b) an organosiloxane having from 2 to 4 silicon-bonded organic groups having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and having terminal olefinic unsaturation, the remaining silicon-bonded organic substituents being selected from alkyl groups having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and phenyl groups, wherein said reaction is carried out in the presence of a polar organic liquid which is at least a partial solvent for platinous halide, and (II) neutralizing the reaction mixture of (I). The present invention also produces platinum-organosiloxane complexes which are useful as catalysts for hydrosilylation reactions. We also provide a method of preparing such complexes without the use of large excesses of unsaturated organosiloxane reactants and in the absence of water. We thereby reduce or eliminate the formation of by-products in the complexes as compared to the prior art. The platinous halide employed in the method of this invention is selected from platinum dichloride, platinum dibromide, platinum diiodide, platinum tetrachloride, platinum tetrabromide, platinum tetraiodide and mixtures thereof, but is preferably the more readily available platinum dichloride. It is critical to the method of the instant invention that the platinous halide have an average crystal size of less than 250 nm (2500 Angstroms). The crystal size of the platinous halide is measured by X-ray Diffraction (XRD). The XRD technique is well known to those skilled in the art. It is more preferred for this invention that the crystal size of the platinous halide is from 50 to 150 nm (500 to 1500 Angstroms). The organosiloxane reactant for forming the platinum-organosiloxane complexes herein can be any cyclic or substantially linear organosiloxane in which there are from 2 to 4 silicon-bonded organic groups having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and which contains terminal olefinic unsaturation. Such unsaturated groups include hydrocarbon groups, like vinyl, allyl, butenyl and hexenyl, but are preferably vinyl. The remaining silicon-bonded organic groups in the organosiloxane are preferably methyl, but up to 50% of said groups may be selected from alkyl groups having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and phenyl groups. Some chain branching may be present in the organosiloxane reactant. Thus it will have in the molecule from 1.9 to 3.0 total organic groups per silicon atom. Examples of the operative organosiloxanes are methyl-vinyl-cyclotetrasiloxane, copolymers of dimethylsiloxane and methylvinylsiloxane and copolymers of dimethylsiloxane and phenylmethylvinylsiloxane. The preferred organosiloxanes are those in which at least two of the vinyl groups are present on adjacent silicon atoms. Most preferred is 1,3-divinyltetramethyldisiloxane. The polar organic liquid which must be present in the reaction mixture of this invention should be at least a partial solvent for the platinous halide. It should be capable of solubilizing at least some of the platinous halide present in the reaction mixture. It is believed that the reaction proceeds by way of the formation of a weak complex between the polar liquid and the platinous halide. This complex then breaks down and reacts with the organosiloxane via the ligands and olefinic groups to form the desired platinum-organosiloxane complex. Suitable polar organic liquids are therefore those which react with the platinous halide to provide a first complex which is soluble in the polar organic liquid and in which the ligands are displaceable by the olefinic (e.g. vinyl) groups in the organosiloxane to yield the desired platinum organosiloxane complex. Such polar liquids include amides, such as dimethylformamide; ketones, for example butanone and acetone; and crown ethers, with the preferred polar liquids being amides and ketones. The proportion of polar liquid present is not narrowly critical but preferably falls within the range from 1 to 20 moles of polar liquid per mole of platinous halide. The organosiloxane is preferably employed in a proportion of at least 3.5 moles per mole of the platinous halide. In order to achieve minimum reaction times, the organosiloxane should be present in stoichiometric excess, that is more than 8 vinyl groups per platinum atom. Very large excesses of the organosiloxane are, however, best avoided. We have found that such large excesses can lead to the presence of undesirable amounts of by-product oligomers. In carrying out the method of this invention, the reactants are mixed and reacted at elevated temperatures. Some reaction may occur at temperatures as low as 40°C. but it is preferred to employ temperatures in the range from 50°C. to 120°C. Step (II) of our method comprises neutralizing the reaction mixture of (I). This is accomplished by mixing the reaction product of Step (I) with a hydrocarbon solvent such as heptane, toluene or xylene and a basic buffer solution at elevated temperature. It is preferred that this neutralization be carried out at a temperature of from 40 to 50°C. The buffer solution is a mixture of deionized water and a salt selected from sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide or magnesium carbonate. It is preferred to employ sodium bicarbonate salt. In addition, up to 25% by weight of an organosiloxane such as a polydimethylmethylsiloxane, a vinyl terminated polydimethylsiloxane or a polyorganosiloxane having silicon-bonded olefinically-unsaturated groups such as tetramethyldivinyldisiloxane may optionally be added prior to or after step (II). It is not necessary to dry the reactants beforehand but to avoid the undesired formation of oligomeric species, the reaction is best carried out in the absence of added water. After reaction, the non polar solvent, if used, may be removed by distillation under reduced pressure. The polar organic liquid may be allowed to remain in the platinum siloxane reaction product, but it can also be removed under reduced pressure. Where its boiling point permits, any excess of the organosiloxane reactant may be removed by distillation. However, our platinum-organosiloxane complexes have been found to be unstable during storage in the pure state. The method of this invention has the advantage of providing pure platinum-organosiloxane complexes without the need to use large excesses of the unsaturated organosiloxane reactant. It can also be carried out in the absence of water, thereby reducing the formation and presence in the desired product, of oligomeric by-products. The platinum-organosiloxane complexes prepared by this invention are useful as catalysts. They are particularly useful as catalysts for the well-known hydrosilylation reactions in organosilicon chemistry. In another aspect, the invention includes a process comprising reacting (i) a silicon compound having in the molecule at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom with (ii) an organic or organosilicon substance containing aliphatic carbon atoms linked by multiple bonds. In such hydrosilylation reactions the organosilicon compounds having ≡SiH groups may be silanes, siloxanes or other silicon containing polymers, for example HSiCl 3 , CH 3 SiHCl 2 , HSi(OC 2 H 5 ) 3 , C 6 H 5 SiHCl 2 , C 6 H 5 SiHCH 3 Br, (CH 3 ) 2 SiHCl, C 2 H 5 SiH 2 Cl, CH 3 SiH(OCH 3 ) 2 , methylhydrogen polysiloxanes and copolymers of methylhydrogensiloxane units and, for example, dimethylsiloxane units, trimethylsiloxane units and phenylethylsiloxane units. The nature of the silicon-bonded substituents present in addition to the hydrogen atoms is not critical but normally such substituents will comprise halogen atoms, alkoxy radicals, preferably having less than 6 carbon atoms and monovalent hydrocarbon or halogenated hydrocarbon radicals having from 1 to 18 inclusive carbon atoms. The compounds containing carbon atoms linked by multiple bonds may be organic, such as pentene-1, hexene-1, heptene-1, acetylene, butadiene, vinylacetylene, cyclohexene, styrene, allyl bromide, vinyl acetate, allyl alcohol or an allyl ether of a poly(alkylene oxide); or they may be organosilicon, for example (CH 3 ) 2 (CH 2 =CH)SiCl, (CH 2 =CHCH 2 )(CH 3 )SiBr 2 , (CH 2 =CH)Si(C 2 H 5 ) 2 Cl, (CH 2 =CH)Si(OCH 3 ) 3 and organosiloxanes and polysiloxanes containing silicon-bonded vinyl, allyl or hexenyl radicals. Any remaining silicon-bonded substituents in the unsaturated organosilanes and organosiloxanes may be halogen atoms, alkoxy radicals having less than 6 carbon atoms and monovalent hydrocarbon or halogenated hydrocarbon radicals having from 1 to 18 inclusive carbon atoms. The reaction of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms with unsaturated radicals is well-known and may be employed for the preparation of organofunctional and other organosilicon compounds and in the preparation of elastomeric or resinous organosilicon products for coating, encapsulating and other applications. The hydrosilylation reaction may be performed at atmospheric, sub-atmospheric or super-atmospheric pressures, in the presence or absence of solvents and at temperatures ranging from below 20°C. up to and in excess of 150°C. For certain applications it is desirable to include in compositions comprising (i), (ii) and the platinum catalyst, a substance which inhibits and delays the reaction between (i) and (ii). Among known inhibiting substances are the alkyl, alkoxyalkyl and allyl esters of maleic and fumaric acids. According to a further aspect of the invention we have found that, if desired, the platinum-organosiloxane complexes of this invention may be prereacted with such known inhibitor substances to provide a preformed inhibited hydrosilylation catalyst. Particle size data were generated for three samples of PtCl 2 on a Malvern Particle Size Analyzer. The data are reported as a diameter at which a given percentage of the particles are said to be equal or smaller than the reported value. The crystal size of PtCl 2 was measured by XRD. The XRD procedure for measuring crystallite size was as follows: the platinous halide was placed in a x-ray powder diffractometer (such as a Siemen's D-5000 Theta-Theta type device) equipped with a graphite monochromator, a scintilation counter, a personal computer, an MPA board, printers and a Cu tube operated at 40 kV and 30 mA. The platinous halide material is normally run from 10 to 66 degree 2-Theta at 1 degree per minute. A peak at 22 degree 2-Theta is often chosen to measure the line broadening and later the crystallite size. The crystallite size is determined from the Scherrer equation S=W/PcosT where S is size nm (A=Angstroms), W is the wavelength nm (Angstroms), P is the net line breadth due to size factor and T is 2-Theta/2. A standard material such as a single crystal of silicon is needed to accurately define the line broadening due to the instrumental factor. The following examples in which the parts are expressed by weight in grams (g), crystal size is expressed in nm (Angstroms=A) and particle size is expressed in micrometers (µm) illustrate the invention. Examples 1-5 The crystal size of 5 Samples of PtCl 2 was measured by XRD. The crystal sizes of the samples ranged as follows: 307.3 nm, 185 nm, 166.5 nm, 104.9 nm and 91.5 nm (3073 A(Angstroms), 1850 A, 1665 A, 1049 A and 915 A), respectively. Two grams of each sample was then tested in the following reaction. A mixture of 2g (grams) of a sample of platinum (II) dichloride (PtCl 2 ) having a crystal size of 307.3 nm (3073 A), 10g of methylethylketone and 20g of tetramethyldivinyldisiloxane was heated to 85°C. with stirring for 5-10 hours. The reaction mixture was then cooled to ambient temperature and filtered through a glass microfilter. The filter was then dried in an oven at 70°C and weighed to determine the net amount of precipitate that was filtered. The same reaction procedure was followed for testing the PtCl 2 samples having a crystal size of 185 nm, 166.5 nm, 104.9 nm and 91.5 nm (1850 A, 1665 A, 1049 A and 915 A), respectively. The reaction rates for the various crystal sizes of PtCl 2 were measured as follows: The net precipitate at the end of the reaction was dried, weighed and recorded. This number was divided by the starting weight of PtCl 2 (i.e. approximately 2g) and the resulting value was designated as "% Unreacted Material". The higher that percentage, the more PtCl 2 that was left unreacted and therefore had a slower reaction rate. The reactions were carried out under standardized conditions (same equipment, mix rates, stoichiometric amounts of material, etc.) The reaction rates for Examples 1-5 are reported in Table I. Example 2 was analyzed and it was discovered that the PtCl 2 contained Pt(0) metal which appeared as unreacted in the final precipitate thus the percentage of unreacted material in Example 2 is artificially high. It is clear from the data in Table I that the lower the crystal size of the PtCl 2 the more dramatic the reaction rate. Thus there is a clear correlation between the crystal size of the platinous halide and the rate at which the reaction runs to completion. Example Crystal Size (A)/nm Reaction Time (hrs) 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.5 8.0 % Unreacted Material 1 3073/307.3 20.9 11.8 --- --- 5.4 2 1850/185 31.2 23.7 --- 15.4 12.4 3 1665/166.5 --- 8.8 --- --- --- 4 1049/104.9 2.8 --- 2.2 --- --- 5 915/91.5 1.2 --- --- --- --- Comparative Examples 6-8 Particle size data were generated for three samples of PtCl 2 on a Malvern Particle Size Analyzer. The data are reported as a diameter at which a given percentage of the particles are said to be equal or smaller than the reported value. The data is reported in Table II below (µm = micrometers). Comparative Example Particle Size Distribution 10% 50% 90% 6 5.6 µm 25.1 µm 103.0 µm 7 4.9 µm 18.7 µm 91.0 µm 8 1.6 µm 8.3 µm 61.7 µm A mixture of 2g (grams) of each sample of platinum (II) dichloride (PtCl 2 ) in Table II, 10g of methylethyl-ketone and 20g of tetramethyldivinyldisiloxane was heated to 85°C. with stirring for 5-10 hours. The reaction mixture was then cooled to ambient temperature and filtered through a glass microfilter. The filter was then dried in an oven at 70°C and weighed to determine the net amount of precipitate that was filtered. The reaction rates for the various particle sizes of PtCl 2 were measured as follows: The net precipitate at the end of the reaction was dried, weighed and recorded. This number was divided by the starting weight of PtCl 2 (i.e. approximately 2g) and the resulting value was designated as "% Unreacted Material". The higher that percentage, the more PtCl 2 that was left unreacted and therefore had a slower reaction rate. The reactions were carried out under standardized conditions (same equipment, mix rates, stoichiometric amounts of material, etc.) The reaction rates for Comparative Examples 6-8 are reported in Table III. It is clear from the data in Table III that no correlation exists between particle size and reaction rate. Comparative Example Reaction Time (hrs) 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.5 8.0 % Unreacted Material 6 1.2% --- --- --- --- 7 --- 8.8% --- --- --- 8 31.2% 23.7% --- 15.4% 12.4% Examples 9-14 A catalyst was then prepared by stripping the reaction mixture of each of Examples 1-5 and then adding to each, a mixture of 0.35g of tetramethyldivinyldisiloxane, 15g of toluene, 1.2g of sodium bicarbonate and 15g of water. This mixture was then stirred. The resulting aqueous layer was then phase separated and an equivalent amount of water was then added to the remaining particulate phase. This mixture was then stirred for one hour and was again subjected to the phase separation procedure. The remaining platinum-toluene layer was then stripped. Next the final net weight amount of catalyst was then subsequently diluted with tetramethyldivinyldisiloxane (2X the amount of catalyst) and a vinyl endblocked polydimethylsiloxane (27X the amount of catalyst). Each of the products of Examples 9-14 was a pale yellow oil.

Claims: A method for preparing a platinum-organosiloxane complex which comprises: (I) reacting (a) a platinous halide having an average crystal size of less than 250 nm (2500 Angstroms); and (b) an organosiloxane having from 2 to 4 silicon-bonded organic groups having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and having terminal olefinic unsaturation, the remaining silicon-bonded organic substituents being selected from alkyl groups having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and phenyl groups; wherein said reaction is carried out in the presence of a polar organic liquid which is at least a partial solvent for platinous halide; and (II) neutralizing the reaction mixture of (I). A method according to claim 1, wherein the platinous halide is selected from platinum dichloride, platinum dibromide, platinum diiodide, platinum tetrachloride, platinum tetrabromide, platinum tetraiodide and mixtures thereof. A method according to claim 1 wherein the organosiloxane is selected from methylvinylcyclotetrasiloxane, copolymers of dimethylsiloxane and methylvinylsiloxane and copolymers of dimethylsiloxane and phenylmethylvinylsiloxane. A method according to claim 3 wherein the organosiloxane is 1,3-divinyltetramethyldisiloxane. A method according to claim 1 wherein the polar organic liquid is selected from amides, ketones and crown ethers. A method according to claim 1 wherein (II) is carried out by: (i) admixing a basic buffer solution and a hydrocarbon solvent with the mixture of (I) at elevated temperatures; (ii) removing salts and volatile organic solvents from the admixture of (i). A method according to claim 6 wherein the buffer solution is a mixture of deionized water and a salt selected from sodium bicarbonate, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide and magnesium carbonate. A method according to claim 1 wherein the method further comprises the step of mixing the platinum-organosiloxane complex with a polyorganosiloxane. A method according to claim 8 wherein the polyorganosiloxane is selected from polydiorganosiloxanes and polyorganosiloxanes having silicon-bonded olefinically unsaturated groups. A method according to claim 9 wherein the polyorganosiloxane having silicon-bonded olefinically unsaturated groups is selected from the group consisting of tetramethyldivinyldisiloxane and vinyl terminated polydiorganosiloxanes.

Inventors: GYLES-MAYON DONNA, LI CHI-TANG, WAIER STEVEN HOWARD, GYLES-MAYON, DONNA, LI, CHI-TANG, WAIER, STEVEN HOWARD
Applicants: DOW CORNING, DOW CORNING CORPORATION
Application year: 1994
Main classification: C07F15
IPC codes: C07F7, C08G77, B01J31, C07F15, C07B61